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Episode 94: Pasta Grannies with Vicky Bennison

All over Italy, in tiny mountain and seaside villages, elderly women are making pasta by hand, as their mothers and grandmothers and...

How I Found My Missing Travel Mojo in Italy & France

I nearly cancelled the whole thing, I really did. Mid-2022 and I'd booked a trip in September to France and Italy and it was causing me...

Episode 91: Italy for culture lovers

Hands up who loves Italy? Art, culture, history. They're some of the topics Natascha Mirosch discusses with Dr Kathleen Olive, cultural...

Postcard from Venice, Italy

LISTEN HERE Venice has been on travellers' wish list for centuries, but in this postcard, we're taking a tour of a Venice way beyond St...

Epsiode 82: A Sicilian Food Tour

LISTEN HERE If you listened to epsiode 81, 'The Truth About Those 1-Euro Houses in Italy','in which our guest Rubia Daniels talked about...

The Last Manna Makers of Sicily

We turn our backs on Sicily’s jagged coastline, with its decaying stone towers and pebbled beaches and motor inland, along roads that on...

Episode 81: The Truth About Those 1 Euro Houses in Italy

LISTEN HERE You've probably seen something about it on the news - Italian towns offering 1 Euro houses for sale. If you were an...

Postcard from Rome, Italy

LISTEN HERE In this episode of ExtraVirgin Postcards, we visit The Eternal City - Rome. Our guide is Erica Firpo, an Italo-American...

Postcard from: Puglia, Italy

LISTEN HERE Have you ever wondered where Italians go to holiday in their own country? The answer is Puglia, an unspoiled southern region...

Turning Back Time. Staying in a Medieval Mountain Village in Abruzzo

It’s snowing. Not the kind of little feathery flakes that kiss your face, or tickle the palm of an outstretched hand, but icy crystals...